1st Edition
Vulnerable South Asia Precarities, Resistance, and Care Communities
Editorial
Pradyumna S. Chauhan
Guest Editor’s Column: Precarities, Resistance, and Care Communities in South Asia
Pallavi Rastogi
Poetic Interlude I: After the Deluge
K. Satchidanandan
Foreword
Homi K. Bhabha
Section I - Bodies That Do Not Matter: Gender and Sexual Precarity
1. Brooms of Doom: Notes on Domestic Bodies Gendered to Death in Mughal-e-Azam, Fire, and Earth
Rahul K. Gairola
2. Post-Magic: The Female Naxalite at 50 in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness and Neel Mukherjee’s A State of Freedom
Meghan Gorman-DaRif
3. The Ethics of Representation and the Figure of the Woman: The Question of Agency in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
Anirban Bhattacharjee
Section II - In A Class of Their Own: Belaboring Precarity
4. The Literary Lumpen: The Naksha Narratives of Binoy Ghosh
Auritro Majumdar
5. "No One in the House Knew Her Name": Servant Problems in R. K. Narayan’s Short Stories
Ambreen Hai
Poetic Interlude II: Spaces
K. Satchidanandan
Section III - Region and Religion: Eco-Migrant and Minority Precarity
6. Precarity and Resistance in Oceanic Literature
Tana Trivedi
7. Representing the "Other": Minority Discourse in the Postcolonial Indian English Novel
Saman Ashfaq
Section IV - Teaching Troubles: The Pedagogy of Precarity
8. Teaching Precarity, Resistance, and Community: Rohini Mohan’s The Seasons of Trouble and Genocide Pedagogy
Colleen Lutz Clemens
9. Teaching Beyond Empathy: The Classroom As Care Community
Matthew Dischinger
Poetic Interlude III: Birds Come After Me
K. Satchidanandan
Afterword: Precarious Futures, Precarious Pasts: Climate, Terror, and Planetarity
Gaurav Desai
Biography
Pallavi Rastogi is Associate Professor of English at Louisiana State University, USA. She has written two books: Postcolonial Disaster and Afrindian Fictions and is also the co-editor of the volume, Before Windrush. She has authored various articles on South Asian and Southern African literature.
